Spy Pics of Galaxy's Upcoming GeForce GTX 580

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We have some very cool spy pics of Galaxy's upcoming GeForce GTX 580 and, while we can't give away all the details, we do know that the card supports full 1080P capability up to 5760 x 1080, three mini-HDMI ports for surround gaming and a single DP for an additional desktop display, a custom cooling solution with LED lighting and the company's in-house designed EZY display setting software. Feast your eyes on these.
 
And it will have 1.5gb of memory and will cost $700. Sounds about right. :(
 
well it looks nice, but it's a year late for me to be getting excited about GTX 580s.
 
If there is one knock from nvidia about their 580 cards it is the paltry amount of vram. If Galaxy is touting surround gaming on this one card minimum amount you need is at least 2GB and even that is pushing it. That is way I am so happy I paid a bit more and got the 3GB MSI Lightnings.
 
What are the pcb parts that are beside the pci-e connector? That kind of looks like it could get in the way of motherboard components.
 
Man that looks like a badass card.

But if it dont have 3gb of ram for those high rez's whats the point?
 
xIronCrossx said:
And it will have 1.5gb of memory and will cost $700. Sounds about right. :(
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Ugh, this is exactly what I came in here to post after reading the story. When are these manufacturers going to learn we need lots of memory for our triple display reso's?
 
artika23 said:
If there is one knock from nvidia about their 580 cards it is the paltry amount of vram. If Galaxy is touting surround gaming on this one card minimum amount you need is at least 2GB and even that is pushing it. That is way I am so happy I paid a bit more and got the 3GB MSI Lightnings.
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MSI Xtreme bothers *fist*

Honestly though, 1.5GB is simply way too small, yes you won't need it unless you're pushing high resolutions, but for gods sake, the 580 is a top of the line GPU.
 
NEAT! except for the typos where you said 580 instead of 680 and 1.5GB of ram instead of 3GBs of ram. :(
 
Minimal RAM is 2GB..........fail.

Too much plastic, looks flimsy.......meh. Looks like it needs three slots.....arrrrgh.
What are those tabs near the pci-e connector?? braces?? Is it that heavy??

Nice try but about 12 months too late to the party.:eek:
 
Am I missing something with the heatsink design? Seems like it's not a tight seal between the fan unit and the heatsink resulting in alot of air not doing much of anything other than going out through the cracks without touching the heatsink. Do 3 fans really net better cooling than a properly sealed single fan solution, pushing air over an oversized heatsink? I would think taller fins would be better than triple the airflow. Unless it's using 3 fans simply to reduce noise by spinning them slower.

I'm honestly curious, please educate me.
 
What we want for Christmas is the GTX600...KEPLER
That wont be till next year though.
 
sorry but that thing looks a bit ghetto to me. and 1.5gb of ram would be limited at this point.
 
c4v3man said:
Am I missing something with the heatsink design? Seems like it's not a tight seal between the fan unit and the heatsink resulting in alot of air not doing much of anything other than going out through the cracks without touching the heatsink.
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Inertia, not pressure drives the air in this case, so no you don't lose all the air out the sides.
Do 3 fans really net better cooling than a properly sealed single fan solution, pushing air over an oversized heatsink?
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Yes. You have three times the mass flow rate and an increased surface area as well.

I would think taller fins would be better than triple the airflow.
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You'd be wrong.

I'm honestly curious, please educate me.
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Done.
 
That's the ticket, stick three fancy looking fans on it and claim it is a new video card that deserves to sell for $600.00. GTX580s are for suckers only.
 
Gnasher said:
That's the ticket, stick three fancy looking fans on it and claim it is a new video card that deserves to sell for $600.00. GTX580s are for suckers only.
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Next will be the card they jam 4 gigs of ram on and call "new".

Kepler needed STAT.
 
would have bought this over reference cards when 580 was new, but these aftermarket coolers are coming way to late in the game

like to see NEW cards come out with better cooling than reference, but not when the cards are EOL products.

put a DUAL slot cooler like this on the next gen on release and ill buy it over a reference if its not like 100$ more..50$ more..sure

triple slot coolers are a waste
 
yeah most people in this price bracket have what they want and or are waiting for next gen. hard to find many people willing to spend $500-$700 for a gpu that will soon be matched by a $250 gpu that will also use much less power.
 
Am I missing something?

I see no where on any of these pictures, that states, or proves this is a 580. All I see is Geforce series, and galaxy. I looked at PCB, didnt see anything.

Anyone see proof? How did [H] get these? perhaps its a 600 series card.
 
Stupid_Newbie said:
Am I missing something?

I see no where on any of these pictures, that states, or proves this is a 580. All I see is Geforce series, and galaxy. I looked at PCB, didnt see anything.

Anyone see proof? How did [H] get these? perhaps its a 600 series card.
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We have some very cool spy pics of Galaxy's upcoming GeForce GTX 580 and, while we can't give away all the details...


its not the 600 series at all and should be pretty clear that they know what the card is. these pics are not from some random yahoo or rumor site on the web.
 
Well, can't blame them for trying. There hasn't been anything new for awhile now, and Kepler is still months away. These company still have to put something out for the holiday season, and their only option is to remake current cards with fancy new coolers.
 
Good looking but late to the game for sure. Shoulda dropped these a while back to place a hedge of time between the coming 28nm GPU releases.
 
c4v3man said:
Am I missing something with the heatsink design? Seems like it's not a tight seal between the fan unit and the heatsink resulting in alot of air not doing much of anything other than going out through the cracks without touching the heatsink. Do 3 fans really net better cooling than a properly sealed single fan solution, pushing air over an oversized heatsink? I would think taller fins would be better than triple the airflow. Unless it's using 3 fans simply to reduce noise by spinning them slower.

I'm honestly curious, please educate me.
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Yes, these open, large finned heat sinks cool much better than enclosed single fan variants that are typical of stock GPUs. For instance, my 4870x2 is cooled with an Accelero, and I run fans at 100% all of the time, its practically silent while doing so, and my load temp never goes over 55c (which is an insane difference between it and stock cooling)
 
edifyingkarma said:
Good looking but late to the game for sure. Shoulda dropped these a while back to place a hedge of time between the coming 28nm GPU releases.
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If Kepler is anything like Fermi, we get wood screws build next month, actual cards around April/May 2012. So yeah, thats why these releases. Thats why I really believe the whole Kepler coming in the next month or two is complete BS. Companys are not going to waste time and resources on updating old cards with new cooling and sell for $600 right before the release of a NEW product. :eek:
 
Looks good But... way too late considering that most us are looking forward to Next Gen cards form both Nvidia and AMD good effort Galaxy but next time try geting cards like these out early in the cycle rather than at the end of it
 
xIronCrossx said:
And it will have 1.5gb of memory and will cost $700. Sounds about right. :(
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Total fail.

Any high end GTX580 today needs to have 3GBB of ram. No exceptions.

Zinn said:
well it looks nice, but it's a year late for me to be getting excited about GTX 580s.
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I know. It;s really annoying that the products you want with a GPU (custom quiet coolers,more RAM, etc.) don't come out until its end of life.

I would totally have bought this (if it had 3GB of RAM) back the beginning of the year, but there is no way I'm dropping this kid of cash on a video card if I only have a few months to enjoy it before the next better thing (28nm GPU's) come out.
 
anybody dissapointed in the fact that all of those HDMI dont support 120hz?

:( goddamnit gigabyte


Deviationer said:
if you can afford triple monitor gaming then you can afford the uber single card or multi-gpu setups that needed for that kind of gaming.
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being able to buy the card doesn't change the fact that buying the card would be a shitty decision in the first place.
 
honestly, i don't think that card looks at that great, i could have done that with some tin snips and 3 120mm fans.

oh well, each to his own. I would'nt be buying any new video card at this moment unless you absolutely have to. Next Gen cards are just around the corner.

I believe the amd camp was trying to get their next gen cards out before x-mas. But its getting rather close to that now, so i dunno.
 
GTX 580 explicitly designed for multi-display gaming (with one card) + 1.5GB ram = FAIL.

What is with these new premium cards targeted at Nvidia Surround being released with 1Gbit GDDR5 chips? 2Gbit GDDR5 has been available in quantity for nearly a year. Although there's a bigger price bump than you get with an ATI card (12 chips versus 8), $30-40 extra is really nothing for a card that can save you hundreds of dollars (no need to go SLI if you want to poke your nose into surround gaming).

You would probably be okay with 1.5 GB for a single card: the highest playable settings should not stress that amount of ram. However, building the card with 3 GB gives you a clear SLI upgrade path later if you decide to add a second card to handle more demanding Surround gaming settings. A card aimed at multi-display gaming today with 1.5 GB is a dead-end.
 
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